Note: the Working Group will also take over the maintenance of
the Recommendations and Working Group Notes produced by the XML Protocol, Web
Services Policies, Semantic Annotations for WSDL, XML Schema Patterns for
Databinding, and Web Services Choreography Working Groups after the
completion of those groups. This potentially includes:

The Working Group will review documents produced by other Web Services and
XML related Working Groups when appropriate.

Success Criteria

All comments received against one of the maintained specifications will
receive some reply from the Working Group within 45 days. The Web Services
issues lists are kept up-to-date with no more than 45 days lag from the
original posting of a potential issue.

Deliverables

The Working Group will publish second editions of the W3C Recommendations
and revisions of the Working Group Notes when appropriate. Note that the
development of new W3C Recommendations not listed in this document would
require a new Working Group.

Other Deliverables

The Web Services Core Working Group is responsible for maintaining the
test suites associated with the specifications listed in the Scope section
and providing careful updates as warranted. The Group is also encouraged to
enhance the existing test suites to ensure cross-specification
interoperability.

This Working Group handles core Web Services issues and as such may deal
from time to time with several other specifications beyond those specifically
listed in the scope.

External Groups

The Web Services Core Working Group will liaise with the IETF to
discuss all transport protocol issues that are relevant for Web
Services. For issues that are not clearly in the realm of an existing
IETF Working Group, the IETF/W3C coordination call should be used as
the discussion forum.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry
effort chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across
platforms, applications, and programming languages through the
development of profiles, any one of which could be relevant to the
scope of the Web Services Core Working Group.

Participation

Participation in the Web Services Core Working Group is open to the W3C
Members, and individuals with expertise in Web Services who are invited by
the Working Group Chair and approved by the Team Contact (see also the policy for approval of Invited Experts).
Invited Experts in this group are not granted access to Member-only
information.

There are no minimum requirements for participation in this group.
Participants are strongly encouraged to take advantage of frequent
opportunities to review and comment on deliverables from other groups.

Communication

This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list
www-ws@w3.org (archive).

Information about the group (deliverables, participants, teleconferences,
etc.) is available from the Web Services Core Working Group home page.

Decision Policy

As explained in the Process Document (section 3.3), this group
will seek to make decisions when there is consensus. When the Chair puts a
question and observes dissent, after due consideration of different opinions,
the Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote) and any
objections, and move on.

This charter is written in accordance with Section 3.4, Votes of the W3C
Process Document and includes no voting procedures beyond what the Process
Document requires.

Patent Disclosures

The Web Services Core Working Group provides an opportunity to share
perspectives on the topics addressed by this charter. W3C reminds Working
Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure
obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C
Patent Policy. While the Working Group does not produce new
Recommendation-track documents, besides new editions of existing
Recommendations, when Working Group participants review Recommendation-track
specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do
apply.

About this Charter

This charter for the Web Services Core Working Group has been created
according to section 6.2
of the Process Document. In the event of a
conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C
Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.